News
Barnsdale celebrates special anniversaries at the Chelsea Flower Show
17 May 2013
It’s all systems go at Barnsdale this week! In between filming TV and radio interviews for the BBC’s Chelsea coverage, Nick Hamilton and the team have been preparing a special display to mark both the 100th anniversary of the world's most famous flower show and also the 30th birthday of Rutland’s most famous gardens, as well as growing vegetables for this year’s Homebase Garden, created by Barnsdale's award-winning associate garden designer Adam Frost.
We want the Good Life!
20 April 2013
Following the recent food scandals, B&Q reveals a quarter of Brits are now considering rearing their own chickens, and over half the nation want to grow their own to ensure food authenticity.
Pears, plums and peaches - The Queen’s Orchard opens in Greenwich Park
19 April 2013
The Queen’s Orchard in Greenwich Park will soon open to the public after being lovingly restored with the inclusion of heritage fruit trees, new gates, pathways and ponds.
Other News
- Crook Hall & Gardens Celebrates International Dawn Chorus Day
- Get involved this year at the Great British Food Festival
- Celebrity chef supports RHS community food-growing initiative
- Gardens ‘vital’ for some of our most threatened birds
- Unique opportunity to visit a royal garden
- Many happy returns
- From shy to spry; March males are all-singing, all-dancing
- Discover the joy of growing your own food
- Love isn’t in the air; it’s on the nest... already
- Pippa Greenwood on tour
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Feature Articles
Must-have varieties for your plot
3 May 2013
Joe Maiden has been growing vegetables all his life, but which are the ones he simply couldn’t be without? This month in KItchen Garden magazine he reveals his must-have veg...
Recipes: Early summer treats
3 May 2013
The new season’s harvest starts in earnest in June with fresh strawberries, broad beans and gooseberries available in abundance.
Jobs for the month: June 2013
3 May 2013
June is the first month of summer and yet around the 21st of the month is the longest day. There is still plenty of growing time left. From the middle of the month the onions stop putting on leafy growth and their bulbs start to swell. The Japanese sets that were planted back last Autumn should be maturing along with the garlic and shallots.
Other Feature Articles
Videos
Hands on at the Harrogate!
28 May 2012
KG editors Steve Ott and Emma Rawlings bring you some great growing tips from the spring show to help you get the best from veg in containers...
Blogs
The plight of the Bumble Bee
22 May 2013
We keep hearing about the plight of our Bees, so if there is anything we can do to support them, let us at least try.
In Search of Stray Strawberries
18 April 2013
I spent a pleasant afternoon at the weekend sorting out my small kitchen garden. I hadn’t managed to get out on it much recently, what with work and the weather and it was looking a little bit neglected.Other Blogs
- New Beginnings
- Winter’s on its way!by Debbie Cooke
- Deck the halls with boughs of holly…. OR be a little more adventurous with you Christmas decorations
- Up Close and Personal by Debbie Cooke
- Sweet Crumbly Compost or Snotty Green Sludge? By Debbie Cooke
- Reprieve for an unproductive plant by Debbie Cooke
Diary Dates
Stewart Garden Grow Your Own tour with Pippa Greenwood
3 April 2013
Wednesday 15 May: Wentworth Garden Centre, Hague Lane, Wentworth, Rotherham, S Yorkshire S62 7TF www.wentworthgardencentre.co.uk
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